"Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski has condemned Oscar winner Will Smith for smacking Chris Rock following his divisive Jada Pinkett Smith joke on the 2022 Academy Awards.
“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski spilled some scorching tea Monday morning: “Empowered” Jada Pinkett Smith doesn't want a slap-happy male savior.
Brzezinski has condemned Oscar winner Will Smith’s Sunday evening spectacle, wherein he infamously smacked humorous man Chris Rock over a divisive Jada joke on the 2022 Academy Awards.
For individuals who’ve been residing beneath a popular culture rock, the incident occurred after Rock, 57, cracked a bald wisecrack about Smith’s actress spouse, who’s been open about her ongoing battle with alopecia. In response, Smith, 53, who had simply received the Finest Actor Oscar for his work in “King Richard,” strolled onto the stage and slapped the comedian throughout the face — earlier than taking a seat and warning Rock to “hold my spouse’s identify out of your f—king mouth.”
Brzezinski, 54, for one, didn’t take kindly to Smith’s struggle knighting, insisting that his soulmate was greater than able to defending herself, the Wrap reported.
“Jada Pinkett Smith is without doubt one of the most empowered, useful to ladies, ladies that I’ve ever, you realize, seen on the market in entrance,” Brzezinski stated on Monday’s episode. “She is robust; she’s lovely; she shares loads of weak tales throughout her ‘Pink Desk Talks.'”
The political commenter continued, “She goes the place nobody has the center to go. She will maintain herself, thanks, No. 1.”
On the whole, Brzezinski deemed it “disappointing” that Smith determined to react to phrases with violence, saying: “Will Smith had a very long time to consider what he was doing as he was strolling up on that stage, and I simply don’t know the way it nonetheless got here to that.”
“[It was] a horrible show. Particularly with every thing that we’re overlaying on the earth,” the journalist added, presumably in reference to Russia’s ongoing invasion of the Ukraine.
Brezinski concluded her cleaning soap field session by chastising the “Ali” actor over his post-punch mea culpa, which she claimed not noted a vital celebration.
“Did he apologize to Chris Rock in his apology?” she inquired. “Did anybody catch that? Did I miss it? Did he not embrace it? He didn’t apologize to the person he hit, he assaulted on stage?”
Certainly, Will Smith’s Academy Awards smackdown has divided the general public with many mainstream figures deeming it completely inappropriate to punch somebody over a punchline.
“So upsetting – on each stage – bravo to Chris Rock – for not eviscerating will smith – which he might do any day of the week – he walked away – bravo from a tragic show of poisonous masculinity from a narcissistic madman,” tweeted comic Rosie O’Donnell, 60.
“Immediately” present host Craig Melvin lately got here beneath fireplace after claiming that the star’s “Chris Rocking” aided “this long-held notion… that males of colour can’t management their rage and anger.”
Nevertheless, others praised the “Hancock” actor for doing what they perceived as defending his spouse’s honor.
In a since-deleted Tweet, left-leaning Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who reportedly suffers from alopecia, wrote, “#Alopecia nation get up! Thanks #WillSmith Shout out to all of the husbands who defend their wives residing with alopecia within the face of each day ignorance & insults.”
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